LGT's Profit Sense

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). This ASU affected predominantly all revenue streams for all industries except for recognition of revenue from contributions to not-for-profit (NFP) organizations. The FASB vowed to return one day and finish what they started by addressing how NFPs should account for contributions, and four years later they did. ASU 2018-08, Clarifying the Scope and the Accounting Guidance for Contributions Received and Contributions Made, was issued in June 2018 to tackle diversity in practice regarding recording contributions, to clarify the steps a NFP organization should consider in determining whether a transaction is a contribution or an exchange, and to refocus attention on what constitutes a donor restriction and a donor condition.

The changes in revenue recognition present two major issues. In this month's article, Maria will address the first issue. Next month she will complete this two part series.

Over the last six months our Construction Industry team here at Lane Gorman Trubitt has been working on producing an informative video series covering the new revenue recognition guidance and how it will impact how contractors consider and account for revenue on its contracts with customers. During that time we have fielded questions about this topic and its impact on the construction industry. Here are the some of the most frequently asked questions.